Trump slams the media as ‘the true Enemy of the People’ days after CNN was targeted with mail bombs

In the wake of a mass shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue and a series of mail bombings addressed to prominent Democrats and CNN, President Donald Trump said Monday the “great anger in our Country” is “caused in part” by the “Fake News Media.”

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The tweets come hours after Trump claimed “Fake News” is attempting to “blame Republicans, Conservatives and me for the division and hatred that has been going on for so long in our Country.”

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Eleven people were killed and six wounded Saturday at Tree of Life synagogue in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh. Alleged shooter Robert Bowers had posted anti-Semitic comments on the unmoderated social media network Gab, which was reportedly taken offline.

Last week, 56-year-old Florida man Cesar Sayoc, an avid Trump supporter who had emblazoned his van windows with anti-Democrat and pro-Trump stickers, was arrested by federal authorities in connection with a series of mail bombs addressed to high-profile Democrats.

Former President Barack Obama, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, for Vice President Joe Biden, Sens. Cory Booker and Kamala Harris, Rep. Maxine Waters and others were targeted with pipe bombs mailed to their offices or homes. Time Warner Center, the Manhattan building in which news network CNN has offices, was evacuated after a suspicious package was discovered in a mail room. A separate bomb addressed to CNN was found at a postal facility in New York, according to the network.

Trump has repeatedly referred to mainstream media outlets as “the enemy of the people,” claiming the press is biased against him and his supporters and supportive of left-wing politics. The president often targets CNN by name.

With the midterm elections days away, the president has also said he has no plans to tone down his increasingly incendiary political rhetoric. “I could really tone it up,” he told reporters Friday afternoon before departing the White House for a campaign-style rally in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Asked if he planned to call the Clintons or Obamas after they were targeted with the explosives, Trump said “I think we’ll probably pass.”